David Simon’s Time in Baltimore Homicide Unit Prepared Him for GOP’s Embrace of Trump

The Republican establishment’s arm’s-length embrace of presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump is mystifying to many, but not to David Simon.

The Wire creator and former Baltimore Sun reporter tweeted a link to a New Yorker article that explores top Republicans’ public support for a nominee whose statements and policies they continue to denounce. Simon tacked on a lesson he learned after spending a year in the Baltimore Police Department’s Homicide Unit: “Humans get used to anything.”

What I learned about proximity to horror & chaos from a year spent in a homicide unit: Humans get used to anything: https://t.co/uIwKmlhj9b